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A hard knot requires a hard wedge.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

To a hard knot a hard wedge.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It is not hard to nurse a pregnency, but it is hard to bring up a child.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.

Proverbs and old sayings Zen

Once you have decided to hit someone, then hit them hard because the retribution will be the same whether you hit hard or not.

Proverbs and old sayings

The prepared beats the hardworking person.

Proverbs and old sayings about hardworking, people

Me do not know hard firewood, but only lops people put aside hard tasks and devote themselves only to easy ones.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

A hardworking man is better than a crowd of loafers.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about hardworking, man

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian

No matter how hard you try the bull will never give milk.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian

Old habits die hard.

Proverbs and old sayings British about habits, old, olderness

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

Proverbs and old sayings British about fall, old, olderness

The first step is the hardest.

Proverbs and old sayings British

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

Proverbs and old sayings British about beginning, good, good luck

It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The pine stays green in winter, wisdom in hardship.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about wisdom

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about beginning

On earth it's hard and heaven is far away.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about earth

The start of weeping is always hard.

Proverbs and old sayings West African